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Originally Posted by the truth

makes you wonder how so many of the most successful countries do so well outside the EU....starting with switzerland and norway, usually rated as the best most successful and highest quality of life nations in the world....other awesome countries who govern themselves include canada, new zealand, australia, america, japan hong kong, oh and china arent too too bad either
they all run their own affairs and theyre the top nations in the world...the only EU nation at the top is of course germany, who control the entire monetary policies of the eu to suit their own needs and agenda ,the vast majority of the other eu nations have gone to hell in a handbasket

That doesn't make me wonder at all, they have never been in the EU so have held onto all they had before rather than giving it up.
They have been able to hold their success as it was before the EU came into being.

They have not known any different.
However those Nations all want relations with the EU and some already have, even accepting the free movement of EU citizens to have trade and relations with the EU too.

It may well have been had we never joined the EEC in 1973 and suck to all we had in place before,we may have continued doing pretty good too.
However we tried since the early 60s to get into the EEC only eventually getting in by 1973.

for the last 40+ years we have chosen closer ties to mainland Europe and what we had before is likely not there in the way it was when we gave it all up to join the EEC and then agree treaties that brought into being the EU over time.
Now we are being asked by the out side, to try to step right back again, in a sort of hope of finding some, most or very unlikely all we had before, which frankly doesn't fill me with much confidence as to that at all.

I don't hear those Nations you mention, racing to say, they would jump at supporting the UK out of the EU now ad rushing to outline any new trading deals for the UK.
In fact all those Nations are saying the best place for the UK to be is remaining in the EU.